PUBLICDOMAINPICTURES, GEORGE HODAN
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has begun publishing data from clinical drug trials, as part of an effort to improve transparency in pharmaceutical research. The London-based drug regulator yesterday (October 20) released some 260,000 pages of clinical study reports on two recently approved drugs on its website, Nature News reported.
The massive data release is a first for drug regulators, which are not required to publish clinical results. Drug development firms typically publish studies in scientific journals that disclose medical details about new drugs, but those studies have been shown to be an “incomplete source of information on new medicines,” Larry Peiperl, chief editor of PLOS Medicine, told Nature News.
The release is part of an ongoing effort by leaders both inside and outside the ...
